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Women are more likely to stay in the workforce after having a child if flexible policies are considered the norm, not the exception.

Compensation consultants, often hired by companies with deficient corporate governance, rarely prevent the boards of such companies from overpaying executives.

“Putting people first” can be more than a slogan.

One of the world’s oldest and most influential management consulting firms is taking on a new identity.

A community center founded in Hurricane Katrina’s wake shows how megacommunity efforts can bring people the help they need to rebuild.

Corporate governance expert Nell Minow explains the relationship between outlandish severance packages and the risky financial instruments linked to subprime mortgages.

The best solutions to an organization’s problems may be found among its members.

Booz Allen Hamilton’s sixth annual CEO Succession Study reveals that turnover among chief executives has leveled off and that they now operate in a world of more active investors and involved boards. To survive in this “new normal,” CEOs must pay attention to all of their constituents.

Employees who work nontraditional schedules can create as much value as nine-to-fivers if executives can manage their expectations and special needs.

CEOs, the most desirable board members, are now in short supply. And that’s good news.

Forget the old rules for bringing products to market. Procter & Gamble is helping to write a new playbook.

As more Chinese travelers leave the mainland to explore the world, the travel industry must figure out what these consumers really want.

Eskom, Africa’s largest electric company, has shown the world how to combine social leadership and business success.

Sources for making sense of fossil fuel scarcity, the oil endgame, and the automotive future.

Treating patients like customers is not only good medicine; it’s good business.

In fulfilling that long-deferred dream, it’s good to start your second career before you exit your first.

The most attractive new form of Internet telephony is also the most threatening to corporate security — for now.

With forced turnover up 300 percent since 1995, business has entered the era of the short-term chief.

The new breed of staff can be an enormous force for positive change and success in their companies — if managers listen to them.

Not all products are created equal, so supplier integration schemes must be flexible.

Performance-related dismissals are up and board tolerance is down at large companies around the world, the annual Booz Allen Hamilton study finds.